Brooklyn residents upset at two NYPD cops for antagonizing gang members with controversial rap song blared from their squad car

Residents of a Brooklyn housing complex are blasting a pair of patrol cops for blaring a controversial rap song from their squad car and antagonizing gang members in the neighborhood. (Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)

Residents of a Brooklyn housing complex are blasting a pair of patrol cops for blaring a controversial rap song from their squad car and antagonizing gang members in the neighborhood.

Video posted this month on YouTube and Facebook shows a uniformed officer and a sergeant outside Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville in a police SUV that is blaring the song “Folk in the Trunk,” described by online listeners as a diss track against a gang named Folk Nation.

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The Crips affiliate is also known as Folk — for Forever Over Latin Kings — and has a significant presence at the houses, sources said. The profane song advocates killing members of the Folk Nation gang.

“It’s like playing ‘Cop Killer”’outside a precinct,” a source said.

Two NYPD police officers, pictured here, were videotaped playing "Folk in the Trunk" from their SUV public address system at Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The song allegedly advocates killing members of the Folk Nation gang. (YouTube)

In the video of the police car, one of the officers appears to be smiling.

“We got kids here in the neighborhood and that’s not something they should be listening to,” McGee said. “It’s disorderly conduct. I think some things can be used to ease tension, but not that.”

“I find it offensive especially with the trials and tribulations we have been through with the police,” another resident said. “The cops are antagonizing people, probably trying to get them to do something, get a reaction.”

Rapper 50 Cent on social media has been lambasting a Brooklyn police commander ever since word got out that last June he allegedly told cops at the 72nd Precinct that if they see the rapper at a NYPD-sanctioned boxing match they should “shoot him on sight.”

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Internal Affairs is investigating the commander, Deputy Inspector Emmanuel Gonzalez, about the alleged threat, though he has passed it off as a joke.

On Tuesday, 50 Cent in five Instagram posts highlighted pictures of Gonzalez. Supporters of the 30-year veteran believe the rapper is now threatening Gonzalez.

Tensions between 50 Cent and Gonzalez date back to last May. That’s when Gonzalez in a harassment complaint accused the rapper of threatening him on Instagram after the cop was accused in a lawsuit of shaking down the owner of a club in Sunset Park that 50 Cent used to frequent.

No charges were filed then, and the rapper ultimately removed the Instagram post.